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by mindcrime 4172 days ago
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal".

That said, yeah, I have a problem with stealing actual source code, even if it is "just" CSS and HTML or whatever. But as far as cribbing the "look and feel" stuff, I personally don't have a problem with it. And to the extent that I know anything about the legal aspects, I thought there was some old case involving Lotus or Adobe or somebody, that established that copying "look and feel" is legal?

Edit: Here's more on the legal aspect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel#Lawsuits_over